Lupo
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lupo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. In Italian, recorded as from the personal name Lupo, in part a continuation of the Latin personal name Lupus ‘wolf’, and in part a medieval revival under the influence of Germanic personal names formed with wulf ‘wolf’.
- USUnited States1 in 61K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 94K
- ITItaly≈1 in 4.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 346 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the personal name Lupo, in part a continuation of the Latin personal name Lupus ‘wolf’, and in part a medieval revival under the influence of Germanic personal names formed with wulf ‘wolf’. In some cases the surname may derive from a nickname for a violent, predatory person, from the vocabulary word lupo ‘wolf’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lupo is read(measured from records)
Lupo is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English57%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lupo in English.
- Spanish15%
Latín Lupus, ‘lobo’; nombre de origen totémico.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Italian7.8%
from the personal name Lupo, in part a continuation of the Latin personal name Lupus ‘wolf’, and in part a medieval revival under the influence of Germanic personal names formed with wulf ‘wolf’. In some cases the surname may derive from a nickname for a violent, predatory person, from the vocabulary word lupo ‘wolf’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
wolf
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Dal lat. Lupus 'lupo'; possibili anche origini germaniche da wulf 'lupo' o liuba 'amore'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
do lat. lupus, 'lobo'; pode indicar caçador de lobos, apelativo por atributos do animal, ou derivar do nome Lupo
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Variante di Lupi
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lupo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | 15 | Lupo | 67 |
| US United States | 5,425 | 1 in 61K | 5.4K | Lupo | 346 |
| AR Argentina | 1,262 | 1 in 36K | 1.3K | — | 1 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 94K | listed | Lupo | 27 |
| FR France | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 73K | 121 | — | 3 |
| BG Bulgaria | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Lupo | 7 |
| UY Uruguay | 122 | 1 in 28K | 122 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Lupo | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joseph Lupob. 1537ITBritish composer
- Thomas Lupob. 1571GBEnglish composer and viol player
- Ignazio Lupob. 1877ITAmerican mob boss (1877-1947)
- Rino Lupob. 1888PTItalian-Portuguese film director
- Alberto Lupob. 1924ITItalian film and television actor (1924–1984)
- Michele Lupob. 1932ITItalian film director (1932-1989)
- Tom Lupob. 1945ARArgentinian psychologist (1945–2020)
- Frank Lupob. 1955USAmerican television producer and writer (1955–2021)
- Loredana Lupob. 1978ITItalian politician
- Daniele Lupob. 1991ITItalian beach volleyball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.4K | #6,298 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.4K | #5,872 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5K | #6,476 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 139 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 122 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 121 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 110 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 110 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 89 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 23 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lupo mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Lupo, in part a continuation of the Latin personal name Lupus ‘wolf’, and in part a medieval revival under the influence of Germanic personal names formed with wulf ‘wolf’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Lupo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Lupo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lupo.
- What are other forms of the name Lupo?
- In the etymology graph, Lobo is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Lupo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,425 people named Lupo in 2010, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lupo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.